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**leoliver**

Thanks for your reply , Ill try that .
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your friend,
Larry

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

"leoliver" wrote in message
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Bruce,
Here's the URL the link took me to :

http://www.microsoft.com:80/wn3/aspx...e-b36c7ba35c0e

Did you try the conversion technique I mentioned to you?

Take the url= value:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...e-b36c7ba35c0e

and change all the escaped hex to the equivalent ASCII characters

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...e-b36c7ba35c0e

Ok. It looks as if you might have clipped that URL= value. Did more of it wrap to another line in your E-mail?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...c0e&sloc=en-us

That was a guess of what it was. So it looks as if for some reason you are missing just the &sloc=en-us value.

Going backwards, e.g. encoding the ampersand as %26 and the equal sign as %3d it would seem the original URL should have been

http://www.microsoft.com:80/wn3/aspx...26sloc%3den-us

Does that work?... View Source shows that it returns just a DOCTYPE which is probably the same bug from the web site that you are
seeing. So, my guess is that you clipped the %26sloc%3den-us from your
example and with it the conversion would work fine (since it is equivalent to a URL that CopyURL,
e.g., Alt-L,Enter with that message open, shows).

HTH

Robert
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